“The news in our country is marked by the revelations of corruption at the top of the state”
July 24, 20220
This is how I would like to address those who live in Gabon and those who love this country.
Mmes, PM of Gabon,
I am the Reverend Georges Bruno Ngoussi, Senior Pastor of the International Church of Nazareth, President of the National Platform of Gabonese Civil Society.
The news in our country is marked by the revelations of corruption at the top of the state. We have all followed the declarations of the lawyers of Christian Patrichi Tanasa Mbadinga clearly demonstrating that the Gabonese justice turns a blind eye to the main principals and yet named by one of the defendants found guilty and sentenced. This is a sign that the logic of 2016 is already established for 2023.
Faced with this logic, and not having the same means to counter it, we must more than ever pool the efforts of a peaceful and democratic struggle. Not to seek to attack each link in the chain of sin, but to eradicate the whole chain itself.
We must therefore, like the other countries with which Gabon has signed treaties and good governance alliances, seek to have the proposals of our memorandum included in the framework of the electoral code, through effective advocacy with partners local and international, in order to enable us to make our voice heard, during the democratic deadlines to come.
The average Gabonese have a big role to play. That of relaying this message to whoever approaches them, it being understood that speech is a weapon. Not doing so would be a way of simply letting ourselves be led towards the cycle of elections, demands, blind repression, loss of human and material lives without judgment and we start the same thing again.
Reverend Georges Bruno NGOUSSI,
Senior Pastor of the International Church
of Nazareth, president of the platform
of Gabonese civil society